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Why did Billinsky wait so long to append his footnote? The reason, he explains, was the belated discovery last summer of 13 letters from Freud to the president of Clark University in Worcester, Mass., in connection with a series of lectures at that school during Freud's only visit to the U.S. (TIME, Sept. 5). In one letter, Freud wrote bitterly of Jung: "If the real facts were more familiar to you, you would very likely not have thought that there was again a case where a father did not let his sons develop, but you would have seen that the sons wished to eliminate their father, as in ancient times." Billinsky says he broke his silence to repair the Jungian image.
Billinsky's exposé is risk free. Martha, Minna and the man they shared are silent in the grave.